The End of Year Ciddies 2004 - Nominate Now!
It's Ciddies Time!
One year ago, the end of year Ciddies broke all four records for member participation, with 1837 nominations from 66 members providing the finalists for 50 Ciddies of which an unprecedented 87 members sent in a whopping 3467 votes to pick out the funniest, the weirdest, the spammiest and the sexiest members of the Eyes on Final Fantasy community we all take part in. Half a year ago, while none of the records were broken, it was a Ciddies with two massive firsts - one of them being that the Ciddies would change from the standard 30/20 split between main awards and MLT (Most Likely To) awards to a 40/10 split. The second change was that the winners would not be presented in the chatroom in a one to two hour burst, but would be posted into the forums one by one, taking over 24 hours to reveal each winner individually. In fact, the thread got a huge 744 replies before it was closed up. Will it happen again? Actually, it's all up to BoB's Mum and how long she's going to spend with them on the 4th of December when she comes up for an early Christmas.But on with the show! Who will win a Cid-on-a-stick this time? Let the nominating begin!
And the Ciddies are...
1) Best Member
2) Best Male
3) Best Female
4) Best Admin (no nominations)
5) Best Cid's Knight (no nominations)
6) Best Site Staff (no nominations)
7) Best Recognized Member/Former Staff (see rules) (list)
8) Best Veteran (see rules)
9) Best Regular (see rules)
10) Best Newbie (see rules)
11) Nicest Member
12) Evilest Member
13) Sexiest Male
14) Sexiest Female
15) Cutest Male
16) Cutest Female
17) Best Custom Rank
18) Best Avatar
19) Best Signature
20) Best Artist
21) Best Graphic Designer
22) Best Writer
23) Best Poet
24) Best Poster
25) Best Spammer
26) Best Chatter
27) Best Role Model
28) Funniest Member
29) Weirdest Member
30) Horniest Member
31) Corniest Member
32) Most Underrated Member
33) Most Distinctive Member
34) Most Enlightening Member
35) Most Entertaining Member
36) Most Missed Member
37) Most Helpful Gamer
38) Most Helpful Techy
39) Most Helpful Member
40) Cutest Couple
Most Likely To...
41) Become a Cid's Knight
42) Get Banned
43) Sell Out
44) Win A Ciddie For The Very First Time (see rule #13) (past Ciddies winners)
45) Get Hit By A Bus
46) Be Driving The Bus
47) Bring a Fishing Rod to a Car Pool
48) Be Calvin
49) Be Hobbes
50) Get Together
And now for the fine print.
Rule #1 - You can nominate yourself for no more than two awards, excluding Cutest Couple.
Rule #2 - You can nominate any one member for no more than five awards, excluding Cutest Couple.
Rule #3 - Do not post your nominations - PM them.
Rule #4 - PM nominations to Award Guy, not Loony BoB.
Rule #5 - PM your nominations by the closing date.
Rule #6 - Do not spam up the Ciddies Thread with self-advertising.
Rule #7 - You can not nominate more than one person per award. If you do, I'll take the first one you've nominated.
Rule #8 - You can't be nominated for avatar, custom rank and/or sig if you do not have an avatar, custom rank and/or sig - unless you remove them at some time during the Ciddies.
Rule #9 - You can change your avatar, custom rank and/or sig during nominations and finals. This shouldn't cause any major issues, as you can only earn what awards you recieve, be the votes late or early, that's your problem.
Rule #10 - Changes can be made once, and additions can be made however often you like. Please title any PM's with Changes as 'Nomination Changes' or 'Vote Changes', and the same for additions (only 'Additions' should replace 'Changes' in the title. Duh).
Rule #11 - You can only be nominated/voted for one of the 'rank-categorized-awards'. Best Admin, Cid's Knight and Site Staff have automatic entry for all of the obvious included members. Recognized Members AND Former Staff will require nominations - these will be in the same group. All other people with custom ranks are considered veterans, and all other members are either regulars or newbies. Regular Members are those who have joined EoFF (for the first time) after the date of 20th March 2004 before the date of 20th August, 2004. Newbies are those who have joined (for the first time) from 20th of August 2004 onwards.
Rule #12 You can't nominate a male for any Ciddie with the word "female" in it, and you can't nominate a female for any Ciddie with the word 'male' in it. If it doesn't have 'male' or 'female' in it, you can nominate a member of either gender.
Rule #13 Nominations for Ciddie #44 must NOT be past Ciddies winners.
*deep breath*
Also - You don't have to make nominations for every award.
Also - When nominating, please think not of overall, but purely of the last six months. In other words, if someone was really helpful one year ago, and they don't help much now, they shouldn't get that award. This is purely for the occurances of the last six months!
Also - The Cutest Couple award does not count into the five nominations for another member of your choice, or your self-nominations.
Also - All nominations are strictly confidential - the only person with access to the Award Guy account is Loony BoB.
In addition to that - You can not post your nominations or votes until after the final voting has occurred - a thread can be made for them a bit after the results are shown.
Also - To be nominated into the second round for an award, a member must obtain two nominations in that award. However, should eight members all recieve three nominations, then the cut-off will be raised to three nominations, and the same for eight members recieving four nominations each, and so on.
Also - People who are currently couples shouldn't be voted as Most Likely To Get Together - this is for people who are NOT already couples. By 'Get Together', I mean 'Become A Couple'.
Also - People who are NOT currently couples shouldn't be voted as Cutest Couple - this is for people who ARE already couples.
Also - For a list of Recognized Members and Former Staff, click here.
Also - For a list of past Ciddies winners, click here.
Also - Let's keep it funGO! Nominate!
Nominations will close 12pm next Saturday (27th November 2004) GMT, or sometime around then when I feel like it (I like to keep it open if I know I can break a records - see below for thoseDue to the lengthy downtime for the server change, nomination time has been extended, so keep 'em coming! I currently have 1473 nominations from the below 50 members, but I'd like to pass 1850 this time around, so bring 'em on! I can't say for sure when I'll close nominations - it could be tomorrow, it could be Saturday - it all depends on how many nominations I get between now and Saturday.). Or if I'm not there then, it'll be when I next arrive.
Remember, I am 100% responsible for your satisfaction as a bootcamp participant.
Past Total Nominations
November 2001: 1632 nominations
June 2002: 1591 nominations from 61 members
November 2002: 1635 nominations from 59 members
June 2003: 1651 nominations from 55 members
November 2003: 1837 nominations from 66 members - a record amount of nominations from a record amount of nominators!
June 2004: 1693 nominations from 60 members
Past Total Vote
November 2001: 2817 votes
June 2002: 2753 votes from 64 members
November 2002: 2163 votes from 49 members
June 2003: 3453 votes from 77 members
November 2003: 3466 votes from 87 members - a record amount of votes from a record amount of voters!
June 2004: 3267 votes from 75 members
The Ciddies are sponsored by Eyes on Final Fantasy, The Ciddies Committee, the Cookie Monster smiley and A Picture Of A Turkey Hitting A Dog.
Already got ten likely finalists.
Originally Posted by Xander
